New study shows Arctic sea ice extent ~6000 years ago was much less than today

This correlates well with evidence for 7mya to present (falling) Holocene sea levels evident here on the coast of Western Australia, much of it described here, in this excellent but possibly now hard to obtain Geological Survey of Western Australia publication:
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Geology-and-Landforms-of-Perth-Region-Bob-Gozzard/9781741680720
Probably best sourced direct from GSWA:
http://www2.dmp.wa.gov.au/ebookshop/searchMain.asp
The section describing the detailed carbon dating (from driftwood) and morphology of the post-Holocene optimum coastal advance at the Rockingham-Becher Plain coastal is fascinating, as are the many instances of early Holocene-aged raised beaches, cliff-notches, etc. 2 to 4m above the present sea level (along this ocean coastline of a long-established, tectonically-stable and tectonically-remote continental margin, where such features are far less suspect than say the tectonically-active and recently ice-covered coastlines of northern Europe)

Gary says:
March 24, 2014 at 5:52 am
It’s 99% modeling results with a tiny bit of support from other studies using paleo data, some of which the authors say is contradictory. The only thing worthwhile coming from it is that models can cut both ways, which hardly supports the paper’s conclusion.

See these studies which don’t rely on modelling.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/24/new-study-shows-arctic-sea-ice-extent-6000-years-ago-was-much-less-than-today/#comment-1597538

Magma says:
March 24, 2014 at 7:11 am

I am aware of the isolation issue. Now take a look at this close shave.

Abstract
The Early Twentieth-Century Warming in the Arctic—A Possible Mechanism
The huge warming of the Arctic that started in the early 1920s and lasted for almost two decades is one of the most spectacular climate events of the twentieth century. During the peak period 1930–40, the annually averaged temperature anomaly for the area 60°–90°N amounted to some 1.7°C…..
dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017%3C4045:TETWIT%3E2.0.CO;2
Abstract
The regime shift of the 1920s and 1930s in the North Atlantic
During the 1920s and 1930s, there was a dramatic warming of the northern North Atlantic Ocean. Warmer-than-normal sea temperatures, reduced sea ice conditions and enhanced Atlantic inflow in northern regions continued through to the 1950s and 1960s, with the timing of the decline to colder temperatures varying with location. Ecosystem changes associated with the warm period included a general northward movement of fish……
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2006.02.011
Abstract
Early 20th century Arctic warming in upper-air data
Between around 1915 and 1945, Arctic surface air temperatures increased by about 1.8°C. Understanding this rapid warming, its possible feedbacks and underlying causes, is vital in order to better asses the current and future climate changes in the Arctic.
http://meetings.copernicus.org/www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2007/04015/EGU2007-J-04015.pdf
Monthly Weather Review October 10, 1922.
“The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explores who sail the seas about Spitsbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface….
In August, 1922, the Norwegian Department of Commerce sent an expedition to Spitsbergen and Bear Island under Dr. Adolf Hoel, lecturer on geology at the University of Christiania. The oceanographic observations (reported that) Ice conditions were exceptional. In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81o 29′ in ice-free water. This is the farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus…..”
docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf
Examiner (Launceston, Tas. – 25 April 1939
…It has been noted that year by year, for the past two decades, the fringe of the Polar icepack has been creeping northward in the Barents Sea. As compared with the year 1900, the total ice surface of this body of water has decreased by twenty per cent. Various expeditions have discovered that warmth-loving species of fish have migrated in great shoals to waters farther north than they had ever been seen before….
http://tinyurl.com/aak64qf
IPCC – AR4
Average arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years. Arctic temperatures have high decadal variability, and a warm period was also observed from 1925 to 1945.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-direct-observations.html

joe says:
March 24, 2014 at 8:39 am
Actually a study recently proved this is NOT likely to happen from the frozen tundra recently. They actually warmed up the land over years, as might simulate climatic change. The methane was simply not released from the soil as ASSUMED. So this part of the methane bubble claim is NOT supported by the closest thing to real world data we have. It is very telling how the field still relies on old assumptions in light of this.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/warming-may-not-release-arctic-carbon
It is VERY telling if you pop keywords related to this into a search engine. you will find hordes of claims about how big of a timebomb the tundra soils stored carbon is. You will have to really look if you want to see the only study that actually TESTED the claims, and literally heated up the soil over decades, and found the long time claims false. Meanwhile all these sources claiming to be pushing the latest science, or climate facts and variation sof such memes somehow missed the most comprehensive data we have on the subject….

‘ wws says:
March 24, 2014 at 7:20 am
“other real scientists in my home country of Somerset discovered that the lake-village dwellers ate Pelicans for breakfast (European birds now found only in Greece and the Danube delta)!”
I take it that there is a difference between a real scientist and a Skeptic Memer who abuses a fact or two about pelicans in order to make a spurious, non-scientific point about climate.
Just for the record, Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast are lousy with those things.’
They are different species from the species wws is referring too, but the two north american pelican species are indeed doing well.
It would be difficult to argue that pelicans have become extinct in Britain because of climate. The Dalmatian Pelican (fossils of which have been found in GB) still occurs as a vagrant in northern europe. Various species of pelicans occur naturally in climates similar to those of Britain. Various species of pelicans are found in captivity in London Parks where they sometimes do nasty things to pigeons – like catching them and swallowing them alive:

As with other local, national and regional (as opposed to global) extinctions of various pelican species, the most likely recent extinction drivers are human activities: in the case of GB, 64 million people crowded into in a country that can no longer feed itself but has to import around three month’s worth of food annually. My guess is that the most likely factor is that pelicans have a tendency to abandon eggs or nestlings if disturbed.
Most of the world’s eight pelican species have a sound conservation status.